"This is very serious. It is the number-one issue that our American automobile industry is concerned about."
"But it has been 80 years. I appreciate very much the reasons, strategic reasons, for wanting to include Japan, but we cannot allow them to have more access to our market without also having access to ..."
"I cannot imagine why we would want to proceed with a 1-sided agreement as it relates to American manufacturing in the automobile industry."
"We have more to do, but it is certainly optimistic right now as we get started in this."
"In Michigan, our Governor has supported expanding Medicaid because the recent estimates in Michigan show that we will save about $351 million over 10 years by getting people out of emergency rooms."
"We have tackled it as we have looked at health reform. We have actually begun to see health care costs slow, which is good."
"We do not want to be a country where health care is based on your income."
"How much of the total deficit reduction since 2011 will be in cuts to services to middle-class families as opposed to asking those at the top to do a little bit more?"
"That is the kind of thing we should be doing."
"We have a group of excellent panelists today, and I am going to ask that members' opening statements be submitted for the record."
"we can expect conditions that could be even worse this year"
"it is so important that we get that done. We are committed to doing that."